Installing The Out Of Band Task Agent - Symantec ALTIRIS OUT OF BAND MANAGEMENT COMPONENT 7.0 SP3 - IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE V1.0 Implementation Manual

Installing the Out of Band Task Agent

To discover out-of-band capable computers
1 Install the Altiris Agent on the client computers, if they are not already
installed.
See "Installing the Altiris Agent"
2
In the Symantec Management Console, on the Actions menu, click
Agents/Plug-ins > Rollout Agents/Plug-ins.
3 In the left pane, click Remote Management > Out of Band Management >
Out of Band Discovery.
4 (Optional) By default, the policy is configured to run on all Windows
computers. If you want to run the policy on a different set of computers,
under Applied to, change the resource targets.
5 Turn on the policy.
To turn on the policy, at the upper right of the page, click the colored circle,
and then click On.
6 Click Save changes.
To view the list of the out-of-band capable computers
1
In the Symantec Management Console, on the Manage menu, click Filters.
2 In the left pane, click Out of Band Management.
3 Click one of the following filters:
ASF/DASH Capable Computers
Intel AMT Capable Computers
The Out of Band Task Agent runs on client computers and lets you perform ASF
and DASH in-band configuration tasks. It is also used for the Delayed Configuration
feature.
See "About resending Hello messages"
See "Preparing target computers for management"
To deploy the Out of Band Task Agent
1
In the Symantec Management Console, on the Actions menu, click
Agents/Plug-ins > Rollout Agents/Plug-ins.
2 In the left pane, click Remote Management > Out of Band Management >
Out of Band Task Agent - Install.
Preparing target computers for management
Preparing target computers for management
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